David Watts

Skills

Software Design & Leadership

Over 10 years of experience of application and software design and development, in capacities of software development, software design and application development team management.
Languages and Platforms: .NET and C#, C++, Java, Clipper and xBase, Cobol, PL/1, CSS, HTML, Python and recently MAC OS/x 10.x using xCode (C++) using the Cocoa framework.

IT Management (Change & Transformation)

20 years in IT, with 7 years software and application design and development (programming) provides me a unique experience background of having hands-on experience in leading roles in all capacities of large IT organizations. During this expansive period I have observed and gained experience and skills in all major best-practices.
As an experienced and skilled IT manager, I have created the methodologies supporting the PMO (Project Management Office), the PDG (product development group), EA (Enterprise Architecture), ITIL (Service Management), Systems Process, Data and Information Design Modeling, Test and Quality Assurance. As well, I have provided oversight and leadership partnering for demanding change programs. My career demonstrates substantial challenges met with dedication, effort and accomplishment.

Enterprise Architecture

10+ years of Enterprise Architecture, since inception of Zachman and TOGAF frameworks. Full corporate systems design, implementation and management since 1995. Solid success track-record of enabling record profitability, capacity for growth and efficiency of operations.
Expert abilities in forming and establishing formal EA (enterprise architecture) functions for medium to large IT organizations, especially suited for IT intensive environments with multiple platform and technology standards, with a strong demand for balanced architectures that succeed best price, performance and efficiency of implementation and use.

Summary

Professional Enterprise Architect with experience leading the design of coherent, integrated and highly optimized enterprise architectures, across all technology domains and practices, using industry standard frameworks and methodologies. Offering numerous corporate platform workouts, large project support with leadership, guidance and oversight of IT organizations and EA offices using formal practices. Leadership and direction provided to primary domain architects, solution architects and main IT technologist leaders. A primary conduit to the executive and a strong supporting management member of the CIO team.

Provide oversight, guidance, leadership and motivation to key members of the ITWG (IT Working Group), the AWG (Architecture Working Group) while evangelizing and educating on key trends in the industry and with the key technology and service partners of the enterprise.

Developed a comprehensive view of the enterprise architectures, working with the key management of the IT organization, rendering blueprints and illustrations across all tiers of technology, representing component systems and demonstrating vision or future-state architectures to match the short and mid-term strategic plans of IT, while aligning future architectures with the business.

Established all Frameworks, methodologies, polices, standards management as well as design process and review committee formats based on TOGAF best practices, while infusing IBM's Method One Enterprise Architecture practices. Led the Solution Architecture delivery practice serving a $380+ million SAP project, completing comprehensive architectural documents to the PMO for the SAP banking fabrics and landscapes, as well, all Tier-4 Data Center Infrastructure builds. Primary interface to the PMO, Vice-President of Governance, the Practice Leads of SAP and the lead technologists over Applications, Integration and SOA, Data, Infrastructure, Communications and Security as well key Business Stakeholders and Sponsors. A primary catalyst for delivering millions to the bottom line for the client, while expanding the consultation footprint of IBM and the delivery team. Perform as an integral part of a fully-managed service and consulting organization, with experienced executive partners on-point for Project Executive, Delivery Executive, Client Executive with a direct interface to world-class professionals in professional services as well, technical pre-sales for all of IBM's product and service offerings.

Jun 2007Jul 2009

Chief Enterprise Architect

Chief Enterprise Architect: Lead and Senior IT Architecture team member, and creator of the vision-state systems architectures supporting the core eHealth EHR systems supporting the medical industry of the Province of British Columbia, especially for the following core systems:

Designed all architectures for a comprehensive ORACLE platform, using a SPARC/Intel mix of SUN gear (Solaris/VMWare)), with an inventory of technologies (ODI,Vault,BI, Reports,GRID) succeeding a $5.5 million platform of technologies (application, infrastructure, services), gaining all approvals to

Designed the Borland Requirements and Test platform (CaliberRM, SilkTest), and the JAVA application development environment, recommending and adopting the Sybase PowerDesigner data and process design tools.

Led and mentored the ITWG (working group), mentoring and leading the senior technologists in visioning and planning sessions, as well, creating a forum for problem solving and solution generation for a rapid approach to Solution Architecture and development.

Created the Master Design for the SOA (Service Oriented Integration) architectures, introducing SOA architectures on the mainframe, harmonizing the IBM MQ Series platform while creating a comprehensive off-mainframe ORACLE/BEA Aqualogic integration platform succeeding a SOAP/HTML based HL7v3 messaging integration architecture.

Strategic Planning & ARB; Led the Architecture Review Board providing governance and oversight of all introductions and changes to architecture, while leading the strategic planning process, providing recommendations to all management and the CIO on the planning directives of the division for short-range and long-range plans.

Impact: Designed the future eHealth systems supporting the province for Enrollment, Claims and Pharmacy. Spearheaded the turn-around of a failing IT organization, taking a $60mil project portfolio out of a stall-state, while turning-around the confidence of the Ministry and further ensuring the successful execution of a $300mil contract, and contributing to the expansion of project based business by $18mil and more, while reducing overall risk by providing comprehensive architectures, integration systems designs and excellent transformation planning.

Mar 2006May 2007

Director, Enterprise Architecture & Infrastructure Operations

Enterprise Architecture Office: Established an EA office with all supporting governance, frameworks, methodologies, standards, procedures and policies, based on the widely accepted TOGAF program. Formulated a vision architecture and strategic workout path for the executive, sequencing for substantial returns to the company.

Executive Management: Developed a workout plan for the executive. Obtained buy-in for a $10mil marine satellite initiative, VOIP to all terminals, repositioning vendors (saving $2mil per month), piloting service oriented architectures, and reducing the risk of a $10mil upgrade to the Oracle eBusiness Financials and Maximo Asset Management environment.

Organization Leadership: Led a group of ~45 - 55 management and staff, providing direction over telecommunications and networking, data center operations, information system security, vendor and contract management as well as the Enterprise Architecture Office.

Enterprise Transformation:Recruited 8 key personnel in 1 year, lowered operating costs by more than $2mil per month, eliminated a $10 million project risk, and exited a $6 million dollar deadhead project. Established a modernized development environment (Java, J2EE). Designed the CA ITIL platform.

Security & Vendor Management: Oversaw the development and institution of the ISO 17799 policy and supporting Information Systems and Data Security Office. Led the architectural design initiatives to improve the terminal yards with 3000+ security cameras, and centralizing into a main Critical Operations Center. Streamlined all vendor contracts, cutting millions off of the operating budget for the department.

Jul 2002Dec 2005

Independant Consultant, IS&T

Interim IT Leadership: Interim CIO position for VeriMap (Calgary AB, Jackson MI, digital remote sensing airborne imaging technologies), also providing executive participation establishing partnerships and customers in the aerospace industry.Disaster Recovery Planning: Contracted as a Senior Technology Management Consultant to Syniverse (Tampa FL, Verizon Cellular switching company), developed a comprehensive redesign of the information systems infrastructures, creating a solution to the hurricanes that plagued head office located in Tampa FL. Created a strategic workout plan to optimize the IT organization and supporting application environment.

Jul 1999Jul 2002

VP & Director of Corporate Information Services

IT Divisional Leadership: Provided leadership, governance and direction over a division of more than 100 full-time personnel (Management and Staff), leading a group of 10 direct-report managers. Chief Architect for the portfolios of technology and projects supplying the enterprise with all information systems, supporting 18 divisions across 10 metro centers in the US and abroad. Directed Capital Budget of $30 - $50 million, and an operating budget from $5 million to $15 million.Enterprise Workout and Transformation: Leading force behind creating a new vision architecture and strategic transformation plan, replacing legacy systems and integrating with modern technologies using a comprehensive and standardized application, data and integration environment, supporting by 3 tier1 data centers located in the US.Telecommunications Operations: Supported all corporate and operational divisions, designing a comprehensive OSS/BSS (Operations Support, Business Support) application environment with a CRM (customer relationship) single view to the customer. Optimized networking environment for an inventory of 8000 networks, provisioning for hundreds of thousands of customers. Oversaw a portfolio of 26 projects (at peak), succeeding determining the technologies, RPO issuance, professional service partnering and implementing a new billing system, financials and upgrading all corporate productivity and desktops.IPO, Mergers and Acquisitions: Led a powerful growth surge post IPO, assimilating the information systems and operations of 3 acquisitions, completing a growth cycle from a staff compliment from 240 to 1200 finishing at 3000+ over a 3-year period.Disaster Recovery: Le the information systems division through the 911 national disaster, recovering switching paths homed to the twin-towers, and ensuring continuous uptime for the enterprise, and ensuring the 100 million telephone call traffic for the nation continued without interruption.Commendation: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman states, "one of the esteemed aspects of our $1.2 billion dollar acquisition of Illuminet is the highly efficient Information Systems created and under the leadership of David Watts".

Sep 1996Jul 1999

Chief Information Officer

CIO, Chief Information Officer: Recruited by the Chairman of the Board, and the President as the manager and head of the Information Systems Division. Promoted to Director, and then to the CIO. Provided Executive oversight and direction to the IT division. Created the vision architecture, formulating the architectures and the plans to complete. Successfully delivered all information systems from the company inception to the global footprint that it operates on today.Infrastructure Operations:Established all architectures, developed all vendor relations, created systems supporting all divisions including; Executive/Corporate, Engineering, Manufacturing, Shipping, R&D, Sales, etc. Established head office in La Jolla US, with Engineering in Calgary. Extended systems to development and supply-chain partners.Innovation and Business Development: Executive management direction and input on the product development. At the CDPD headwater of the wireless revolution, provided instrumental product development input to engineering and incorporated the use of the wireless-data products into the corporate operations and productivity systems. Represented leading innovations to the industry and our supply-chain partners.

19901996

Software Developer, Team & Project Management

Various Companies

Software Developer: A programmer and software developer for medical practice systems for MedTech and Users Choice, developing a complete practitioners software application platform for medical practitioners. At MedTech, software development included medical claims aggregation and processing.

Software and Application Designer and Developer : Calgary International Airport, First Calgary Financial, HR Block, Management Works and others.

19811989

Financial Controller, General Manager

Domestic & International Finance

10 years of business analyst, team leadership, real-estate valuation expert (accredited), mortgage lending (residential and commercial), financial department management, financial controller and eventually general manager of full-service financial institutions.

* Assistant Manager, General Manager, Cayman Island Credit Union

* Financial Controller, Oliver and District Credit Union

* Commercial Lender, Richmond Savings Credit Union

* Real Estate Appraiser & Valuation Expert, BC Assessment Authority

Education

Systems Programmer Analyst Certificate

Honeywell and Bull Group International Technical College (post-graduate)

Intensive Masters Certificate Program, focused on Systems/Programmer Analyst and IT Architecture courses, running 12 hour days with recognized industry experts as visiting and adjunct professors. Curriculum focused on data design and database management, software design and application development with an emphasis on mainframe development languages as well, C/C++. Various systems design methodologies and software design and development best practices were also part of the course makeup.